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New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden 

By Fiona Murphy — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organization.

Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned

By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.

His parish was the poor: The Rev. Tom Lumpkin spent 40 years ministering to Detroit’s homeless

By Renée Roden — August 4, 2021
(RNS) – ‘Living with people who have lots of problems helped me see my own dark side,’ said the Rev. Tom Lumpkin, who spent 40 years serving Detroit’s homeless.

Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’

By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.
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